Example sentences for: corny

How can you use “corny” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sweet and funny without being corny, the film "belongs to a small genre of crowd-pleasers [such as] The Full Monty and Brassed Off " (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). (Visit the official site; Slate 's David Edelstein is not charmed: "I see a future for elderly male actors willing to shed their clothes for laughs, but I don't see myself in the audience."

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • This huckster’s paradise of boutiques, souvenir shops, bars, and restaurants is frankly commercial in its polished quaintness, but with a certain corny charm.

  • Good reviews for this corny Capra-esque Australian comedy about a working-class family's fight to keep its precious but hilariously tacky home from being demolished for an airstrip.

  • "Flawless is so awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Critics call it corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.


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